Thursday, January 14, 2016

You'll Never Guess Who Makes these Blushes and Bronzers...

I thought it might be fun to post the above pic and have you guess the brand. But in this digital age we're living in, it wouldn't take you long to figure it, so I can't really keep you in any type of suspense for too long.

That said, before you scroll down for the reveal, think about the first few brands that come to mind when you look at these compacts. Got it? Good. Remember that and comment below and let me know which brands you THOUGHT these were from (because I'm pretty sure you're going to be wrong).

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They're from ALMAY. What?! I know! Thanks so much to reader @helenar3 on Instagram for sharing this one with me. These new compacts are now on the Almay website (links below). I don't think these are actually new though--they look like updates of the original Smart Shade blushes and bronzers that had the small dots on them--I'm sure you remember those!

Almay Smart Shade Powder Blush is available in Coral, Nude, and Pink (Pink is pictured above), while Almay Smart Shade Bronzer is available in one shade, Sunkissed, which is what you see above. Again, I don't believe these are new--Almay just appears to have given these products a (serious) facelift. And I for one am impressed. Almay stepped it up with these, and I hope they continue to do so moving forward!

PS: Be sure to comment below and let me know which brand you THOUGHT these were from--I personally would have said NYX, or maybe Physicians Formula. But no way would I have guessed Almay.

SHOOT I actually thought of Almay after I guessed Physicians formula but I couldn't remember the brand name. I kept thinking of Ardell �� The black packaging was what made me think it was Almay, looks similar to their eyeshadow single packaging.

I guessed essence, NYX, Covergirl... But then I thought about it being a brand I'd never guess and Almay was the first one that came to mind. Haha what a surprise! I haven't liked a single product from them though but maybe these will be good!

I went with Mac (thats what it looked like but I knew it wasn't.) Then Wet n Wild (cause they have some seriously cute blushes coming soon) and Essence (cause thats what I was hoping for even though I read your post yesterday.) Lol. Cute! Almay had some less than cute packaging before!

I was thinking wnw or Essence but then thought that was too obvious and thought maybe something new and exciting from Jordana or Jesse's Girl. I'll be interested to see what else comes along from Almay!

Yes and the one for brown eyes is shades of blue. I rarely feel comfortable wearing blue eyeshadow, maybe its my age but I don't recall wearing blues when I was in my 30's either. I do sometimes wear a pop of blue eyeliner in the summer.

I actually legitimately guessed Almay, because of the star pattern - they had this display everywhere for the "American Look" (with Carrie Underwood I think) and stars featured prominently in the graphics.

I was pretty sure it was e.l.f.! I'm surprised not many people guessed e.l.f. They looked drugstore to me. The cute star design seems like it would appeal to e.l.f.'s mostly younger fans. And e.l.f. makes lots of cutesy stuff like the Disney branded items.

I think I may have seen those Almay blushes at Walgreens. I'm pretty surprised it's Almay, though the grey compact looks like the grey tube of my Almay mascara.

Lol, I guessed Almay right off the bat. I wouldn't have normally, but the stars and stripes go with their "all American beauty" marketing. The dark charcoal gray compacts are also reminiscent of Almay. ��

I had guessed Wet N Wild, boy was I wrong! The compact with the stars in the product is really cute and maybe worth picking up on just because of the stars on it. I am such a sucker for packaging , but I can't help it! Thank you G!

Hi Jamie. I can't really tell if your comment is of the troll variety or if you're a sincere reader of my blog voicing concerns. So in the event that you ARE a sincere reader, I'd like to address your comment.

1) If you re-read my blog post, this post in particular was written as a fun exercise pertaining to these particular products. When I first saw them, I could not believe they were by Almay, so I thought it would be fun to have readers try to guess, and then see if they were right. Therefore, the brand "Almay" was not put in the title. As you can see by the numerous comments above yours, readers were more than willing to play along and have some fun with this one. These products clearly don't scream "Almay" so that was the whole point of this post. A fun little game to see if you could guess the brand.

2) I am deeply offended that you think my posts are click-baity. I try very hard to tell you exactly what you're getting when you read my blog titles, and I often put the exact end-dates for deals in the titles, in addition to updating post titles when things have sold out by adding "Sold Out" right at the front of the title. As someone who hates click-bait, I would never intentionally make something click-baity on my own blog.

3) I'm not sure if you're aware but, when I did my blog redesign last October, ALL of my blog posts changed no text before the jump-break. This is not an attempt to give you click-bait, it's a DESIGN choice. Without any text on the homepage, it makes the overall design of my blog much, much cleaner than it was before. Since I already have so many things going on on my blog, removing the text from the homepage serves to keep things streamlined.

I work extremely hard to bring readers deals the moment I hear about them, in addition to showing you new products and writing product reviews. I sincerely hope that one extra click to read a blog post isn't too much to ask, in effort to keep things clean and streamlined to the best of my abilities, and make things more easy to navigate for all readers.